Experimental Design for Laser Produced Shocks in Diamond Anvil Cells

S. Moon, R Cauble, G.W. Collins, P.M. Celliers, D. Hicks, Luis B. Da Silva, Andrew Mackinnon, R. Wallace, B. A. Hammel, W. Hsing, M. Koenig, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, G Huser, E. Henry, D. Batani, O Willi, John Richard Pasley, Henning Gessner, P Loubeyre, R. JeanlozKanani K. M. Lee, L. Robin Benedetti, David Neely, Margaret Notley, C Danson

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Abstract

Laser driven shock measurements have been performed on precompressed samples. A diamond anvil cell (DAC) has been used to statically compress water to 10 kbar and then strong shocked with an energetic laser. The use of intense laser irradiation can drive shocks in targets making it possible to study the equation of state (EOS) of samples well into the Mbar regime. Generally, such experiments employ a sample initially at normal density and standard pressure, therefore providing data on the principal Hugoniot. In this experiment the initial state of the sample was varied to provide data off the principal Hugoniot. We report the work that was done on the Vulcan laser and describe a method to achieve off principal Hugoniot data. * This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-Eng-48
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages1
JournalBulletin of the American Physical Society
Volume46
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2001
EventAmerican Physical Society, Shock Compression of Condensed Matter Meeting - Renaissance Waverly Hotel, Atlanta, United States
Duration: 24 Jun 200129 Jun 2001

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